Instead, I’ll Give You Cute Executives

Teardrop blinked several times, unable to believe what she was seeing now.

Once, twice, three times, four times… continuing until she could accept it.

But repeating that action she had tried first wouldn’t change reality.

“What’s wrong? Why are you so stiff?”

“Even though we have some connection as former demons, don’t be too scared.”

“……”

Isolde and Morgan whispering on either side of her so the students couldn’t hear.

The two who should have been separated when spreading the Isolation Barrier were somehow standing very naturally beside her.

She desperately wanted to believe it was a lie, but the sensation of Morgan’s arm placed on her shoulder as if they were close made Teardrop realize that this moment she was experiencing was not a lie but reality.

‘This can’t be.’

There was much more she wanted to say, but faced with an incomprehensible situation, Teardrop could only mutter those words.

What is an Isolation Barrier?

The Isolation Barrier was the magic Teardrop was most confident in and a barrier that had never been broken by anyone until now.

A barrier that spreads with her demon energy and magic power to completely block external intrusion and allows free control of the space covered by the barrier.

Using this, Teardrop first separated and isolated the ordinary people and academy students, and additionally completely separated and isolated Isolde and Morgan who were in front of the bathroom into different spaces individually.

And Teardrop knew because Idea had entered the Isolation Barrier as a test before coming to the underwater kingdom.

That even that demon executive would need at least 10 minutes to break her barrier.

That’s why she had been so relaxed and intimidated the students, and ended up being rebuked by Haphras.

If Haphras hadn’t rebuked her, she probably would have been leisurely laughing and maximizing the fear of those human students until now.

Because observing the faces of humans being pickled in fear was one of the few deviations in Teardrop’s daily life of living faithfully under Idea.

But why on earth were these two, who should have been trapped in her barrier for at least 10 minutes, here?

It was a question she had already asked herself countless times, but no answer came back.

From the beginning, it was a self-questioning thrown to herself who didn’t even know the reason, so there was no way a self-answer would come back, and the one who gave an answer instead of this was Morgan, who had her arm around Teardrop as if they were close.

“Hehe, you look like you don’t understand why we’re here?”

“Well, your barrier was quite solid. It’s understandable to be curious.”

After Morgan’s words, laughing at her expression, Isolde added that the barrier was certainly difficult to break.

“Th-Then how did you break the barrier…”

At Isolde’s words that the barrier was difficult to break, Teardrop barely parted her stuck lips and asked.

How on earth did they break her barrier, which even Idea acknowledged?

And to Teardrop, who was making a pitiful face with such meaning, Morgan shrugged her shoulders and said:

“Well, it’s just solid, not indestructible, right? If you keep cutting and cutting and cutting, it’ll eventually break.”

“Same for me. I kept firing and firing and firing magic, and it broke. It was solid, but just that much.”

“That’s impossible!!!”

The tone of the two speaking as lightly as if telling her that one plus one equals two. At that, Teardrop shouted with a raised voice.

It’s impossible. She had to say so because the words of the two were so absurd from Teardrop’s standpoint.

“You broke through my barrier, which even Lady Idea took 10 minutes to break, in less than 1 minute?! That’s absolutely impossible!!”

It was a barrier that even Idea needed at least 10 minutes to break one layer. But the two must have broken through at least 10 layers of barriers to come here from where they were placed farthest away.

There was no way they could have broken through the barrier and come here in such an extremely short time of just 1 minute.

Therefore, when Teardrop glared at the two with resentment and indignation at their lies, the appearance the two showed simultaneously upon receiving that gaze was.

They burst into laughter like the sound of a balloon popping.

“Pfft! Did you just compare Idea to us? That little curse user?”

“Don’t tell me, Teardrop, you don’t even know how weak curse users are against barriers? Curse users might be good at weaving barriers, but they’re completely useless at breaking them.”

“W-What do you mean…”

Hearing something for the first time in her life, Teardrop stuttered and asked back.

From the beginning, Teardrop was just a magic swordsman, that is, a warrior with talent in magic, and had lived her whole life detached from study and immersed in the demon army.

She hadn’t spent every day fighting various enemies like Morgan, nor had she devoted time to study or reading like Isolde.

In other words, Teardrop was a demon who literally knew nothing about knowledge related to magic.

And realizing this, Isolde pointed to herself and kindly began explaining to Teardrop, whose knowledge in her head was no different from a blank slate.

“Unlike me, a mage, sister is a curse user. And the main use of magic power for curse users is curses.”

Curses.

It was a supernatural phenomenon created by using magic power not much different from magic, but it was called curses because its direction was different.

The path of curse users was a path that only an extremely small number of those with an aptitude for curses among the few life forms born with talent for magic could enter.

And the magic that curse users use with curses are typically magics that inflict status abnormalities on opponents such as curses, paralysis, poison, burns, etc., and magic that instantly weaves barriers within a certain space to create their own domains.

This is why weaving barriers was as familiar as breathing for curse users, but breaking barriers was an extremely difficult task.

Especially since things like unleashing a large and powerful single attack or various flashy attacks like Isolde or Meiyel as mages were a luxury for curse users.

At best, the attack magic they use to inflict direct damage might be creating small flames or pebbles.

Of course, if they could directly move magic power itself to create magic like Fran, the only curse user attending Meiyel’s magic classes, there would be nothing they couldn’t do, but Idea probably broke Teardrop’s barrier using only curses.

“Because sister is single-minded about being a curse user. She has pride and didn’t like using regular magic because of me, so she wouldn’t have used magic to break your barrier, just a great general like Teardrop.”

“That’s… that’s impossible…”

At Isolde’s words, Teardrop staggered once but couldn’t deny it.

No, more precisely, she couldn’t deny it because she had seen Idea breaking the barrier with her own eyes.

At that time, she had naturally passed it off because Idea was in a position she couldn’t reach, but who could have noticed that someone was breaking it while watching?

At most, only Isolde and Morgan standing right next to her, or executives like Pentia and Al in the demon realm would have noticed.

“Still, it was solid, so I’ll give you credit for that.”

“Im-Impossible… This can’t be…”

“…Looks like she’s not listening anymore.”

Isolde, who had been sarcastically trampling on Teardrop’s pride belatedly, offered words of praise to her, but Teardrop had already half given up her mind, having received psychological shock on top of the desperate situation.

Seeing this, Isolde clicked her tongue softly and turned her head towards Morgan, who was watching the demons behind, Haphras and the elite soldiers, in her stead.

“Morgan. Then are you going to kill all those guys?”

“Of course, didn’t we promise that from the beginning?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

The promise Morgan requested before breaking the barrier and arriving here.

Because Morgan was quite bloodthirsty, she asked Isolde to let her kill all the demons that would be here.

Of course, Isolde, unlike Morgan, who was not a murderer, accepted this, and Isolde stepped back watching Morgan draw her umbrella-shaped iron sword from her waist.

“It’ll take some time roughly…”

If Morgan swung her sword properly, the barrier might break and innocent civilians might be harmed, so she would probably control her strength appropriately.

If civilians were injured or killed unnecessarily, Morgan would also be killed by Aria later.

Therefore, judging that it would take about 5 minutes for Morgan to kill all the demons if she started controlling her strength, Isolde stepped back and approached the students who were watching Morgan who had just started fighting.

“You guys.”

“Ah, Instructor Isolde.”

“A-Are you alright…?”

“Yes, I’m fine.”

Isolde waved her hand at the students who looked at her with worried eyes as she came down fluttering.

The reason Isolde came to the students was not to receive such trivial worries.

The reason Isolde came to the students was simply to move the students out of the museum as Aria had ordered in advance.

Because she had to move the Arin group in front of her immediately and then release the other students who would be in other barrier gaps, Isolde told this to the students in front of her without hiding it.

“You guys go outside the museum for now. It’s probably going to be quite brutal, and Aria asked me to. I’ll send you out with teleportation magic, so outside…”

“Ah, if it’s teleportation magic, I can use it too!”

“…You?”

Isolde was about to say that she would send them out with teleportation magic so stay quiet outside, but suddenly Shati, who was standing behind, raised her hand and interrupted her words.

And what she said was that she could use teleportation magic too.

At those words, Isolde made a face of disbelief, but seeing Isolde’s face, Shati hastily added evidence.

“It’s true! Every day after class ended, I received extra magic lessons from Professor Meiyel separately, and I asked to learn teleportation magic too.”

“Really? If that’s the case, I won’t doubt it particularly.”

As soon as Meiyel’s name came out of Shati’s mouth, Isolde withdrew the doubt she had been thickly sprinkling until just now.

There was no way Shati would lie even in this situation, so if she learned from Meiyel, there was no need for Isolde to worry about it.

Even though she hated to admit it, Meiyel was an even more excellent mage than Isolde herself.

Therefore, Isolde nodded without much other doubt and turned her feet towards the barrier where other students were to save time more efficiently.

“Then you can calculate coordinates, right? I’ll go rescue the other children.”

“Yes, leave it to me.”

“Then…”

If Shati could really use teleportation magic, staying here would be a waste of time. Judging so, Isolde asked Shati to go outside while turning her feet that had only been turned back, and Shati also thanked Isolde for trusting her and took out her staff.

The only thing Isolde overlooked was.

“Then I’ll calculate the coordinates, so everyone gather around me.”

“Okay.”

“I’m counting on you, Shati.”

“Please take care of us, Miss Shati.”

One was that Shati had learned teleportation magic intensively while taking time out of learning other magic classes, and.

Secondly, with the teleportation magic learned intensively, Shati had only ever moved herself alone.

“Use multi-person teleportation magic and tell them to gather around you…?”

Isolde stopped her feet abruptly at Shati’s words.

It’s a fact unknown to mages who know how to use teleportation magic or novice mages, but teleportation magic for moving alone and multi-person teleportation magic have fundamentally different structures.

Teleportation magic for moving alone only calculates the coordinates where one is standing and the coordinates to move to before moving, while multi-person teleportation magic must calculate each individual’s coordinates separately and create separate coordinates for the destination without overlapping before moving.

If not, and only one set of arrival coordinates is set, the impact would be no joke as bodies collide during movement, and the pre-calculated coordinates would often get tangled randomly.

But the fact that Shati told her to gather around her meant that she was undoubtedly planning to increase only the size of the teleportation magic circle for moving alone and carry everyone.

Woong──

“Wait a moment!!”

Indeed, when she turned her head to look, a single-person teleportation magic circle that had only increased in size was spread under the feet of the five gathered together, as if proving Isolde’s prediction correct.

But unfortunately, it was too late to recognize this and stop it.

She reached out her hand to try to stop it somehow, but of course it doesn’t reach.

Isolde shouted and ran urgently, but in the blink of an eye, the figures of the five disappeared beyond Isolde’s hand, and Isolde slumped down dejectedly in that empty space.

“…We’re doomed.”

Now it might be better to think about what would be good to leave as last words for Aria.

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The center of the underwater kingdom.

There, despite the explosion caused by Idea, and within the barrier set by Idea.

The Library of Records stood unchanged, still maintaining its pure white appearance.

And from inside the quiet and pure white library, a noisy commotion resounded.

Crash bang───!

Along with the sound of something falling and hitting the floor, screams of immature voices are heard.

At that sound making the quiet library boisterous, the librarian who had been closing her mouth modestly and staring into space slowly raised her head.

“Visitors, have come.”

Quite long-awaited visitors.